1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales

Edited By Claudia Schwabe, Christa Jones Copyright 2026
524 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

524 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies. The first part considers global formations of the canon and acts to decolonize the field of fairy-tale... Read more

Introduction

Claudia Schwabe and Christa Jones

 Part I - History and Global Formations of the Canon

1. North American Traditions: Transforming the Canon by Anthologizing and Adapting Indigenous and Immigrant Tales

Jill Terry Rudy

2. South American Fairy-Tale Traditions: Little Red Riding Hood in Alternative Itineraries

María Inés Palleiro

3. Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Puerto Rico (1914-1915): Jíbaro Rural Oral Fairy Tales

Rafael Ocasio

4. Remaking the Nine-Tailed Fox in Korean Fairy-Tale Television: Narrative, Gender, and Remediation

Li Guo

5. Decolonizing Through Desi Genres: Trans-generic Approaches to South Asian Fairy Tales

Nimeshika Venkatesan and Kikee Doma Bhutia

6. Turkish and Middle Eastern Folktales and Fairy Tales

Hande Birkalan-Gedik

7. The Arabian Nights: Medieval Magic Tales and Hannā Diyāb’s Fairy Tales

Ruth Bottigheimer

8. Hybridizing Nature in Colonial Australian and New Zealand Fairy Tales, 1891-1930

Michelle J. Smith

9. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: Folk and Fairy Tales in Central and Eastern Europe Slavic Countries

Monika Woźniak

Part II - Theories and Approaches

10. A Historicist Approach to the Evolution of Fairy Tales

Shuli Barzilai

11. Thinking with Fairy Tales: Cognitive Approaches to the Genre

Francesca Arnavas

12. Psychological and Therapeutic Approaches to the Fairy Tale

Daniela Kato

13. Multispecies Fairy-Tale Studies

Mayako Murai

14. A Question of Architecture: Structuralist, Formalist, and Postmodern Approaches to Fairy Tales

Kendra Reynolds

15. Postcolonial Tricksters: African Diasporic Folklore in Contemporary Culture

Emily Zobel Marshall

16. Fairy Tales and Their Translatedness

Christine A. Jones

17. Feminist, Gender, and Queer Theory

Jeana Jorgensen

18. Mutation, Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Monstrosity: A Cripistemological Analysis of Disability and Difference in Old and New Fairy Tales

Anna Kérchy

Part III - Art Forms and Genre Intersections

19. Literary Fairy Tales: Constructed Hybrids

Julie L.J. Koehler

20. Fairy Tales as Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Vanessa Joosen and Lore Goossens

21. Twenty-First Century Fairy-Tale Adaptations on Page and Screen

Kate Koppy

22. Fairy-Tale Pastiche: Nostalgia and Whimsy at Work in ABC’s Once Upon a Time and Disney’s Wish

Christy Williams

23. Images of the Imaginary: Fairy-Tale Illustration and the Visual Arts

Andrew Teverson

24. Manga and Anime

Bill Ellis

25. Sea Foam and Speech Bubbles: Fairy Tales, Comics, and Making Change Through Creative Scholarship

Erin Kathleen Bahl

26. Unburied Moons: Fairy-tale Artivism in the Western and Southern European Traditions

Elena Emma Sottilotta

27. Abject Bodies in Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales

Jade Dillon-Craig

Part IV - Fairy-Tale Practices and Controversies

28. Stone Soup: Controversies Over Authenticity

Kristiana Willsey

29. The Transcultural Texts of (Post-)Colonial Folklore Collections: Examples from the Francophone World

Lewis C. Seifert

30. Feminist Controversies: Examining Fairy-Tale Retellings in the Context of Postfeminism. A Case of Young Adult Literature

Weronika Kostecka

31. Canon Controversies

Anne E. Duggan

32. “But in the Disney version…”: Fairy Tales, Authenticity and Controversy

Tracey Mollet

33. The Fairy-Tale Web

Cristina Bacchilega

34. Colonialist and Racist Stereotyping in (Re)Translating and Illustrating: An Analysis of The Five Chinese Brothers

Juwen Zhang

35. Marvelous Tales from Folks to Folks: Seeking What is Just from and with the Unconsidered

Vivian Labrie

Biography

Claudia Schwabe is Professor of German at Utah State University, USA.

Christa Jones is Professor of French at Utah State University, USA.